Dr. Sharon Malone

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · #1 Women’s Hormone Doctor: Take Control of Your Body, Balance Hormones, & Feel Amazing · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's really even more of a medical benefit for starting sooner because the sooner you start and treat those symptoms—

the more benefit you get in the long term.

What do you mean?

I mean, in terms of your cardiovascular risk, in terms of weight gain, in terms of being able to sleep, all of those things.

Perimenopause does not have a bright line that defines it the way menopause has a bright line that says when you're done.

Okay.

But when to start treatment, when to use hormone therapy in some form or fashion in perimenopause, again, depends on what your treatment goals are, and it depends on how bothered you are by your symptoms.

And that is what I want women to understand.

If you're between the ages of 35 and 45, which is usually about the time that perimenopause or the menopausal transition starts, you seek treatment when you are bothered by your symptoms.

We would have told you.

I think the reason why women tend to wait, there are probably two reasons.

One is they don't realize that this is all part of perimenopause and the menopausal transition.

And the second thing is that

We have been laboring, women have been laboring under the misconception for a very long time that they can only take hormone therapy for a small amount of time because the direction once was we'll take the smallest amount for the least amount of time possible.

That's not true.

You can start getting treated when you're symptomatic.

You can take it for as long as you like.

There is no time limit whatsoever.

on how long you can take hormone therapy.

Now, bear in mind, there may be some subtle differences in terms of how we prescribe in perimenopause and how we prescribe in menopause.

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